As the second largest city in Italy, the city of Milan is located on the Lombardy plain and is an important grain production base in Italy.

Florence is an important transportation hub in the central region of Italy, and as the hometown of Galileo, the current foreign academician of the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences, it can also be regarded as the cultural center of Italy.

The transport of food supplies from Milan to Rome had to be transited in Florence.

Therefore, before attacking Milan, Florence, and Rome, the Ming army formulated the policy of attacking Florence first, so as to break the connection between Milan and Rome.

However, in terms of specific operations, Jiao Lian's troops still used the cavalry to quickly surround the city of Milan, and carried out artillery attacks on the city day and night.

The Roman authorities mistakenly believed that the Ming army's combat method was still a turnip by turnip, so they immediately mobilized reinforcements to rush to Milan, and set up a number of obstacles and defense lines along the line from Florence to Milan, in an attempt to resist the attack of the Ming army at different levels.

In fact, the main forces of the army and the main force of the air force of the Ming Dynasty had already rushed to Florence at this time under the leadership of the Italian sub-surrenderers and the Jinyiwei spies.

The Roman authorities did not have aircraft reconnaissance in this era, nor did they have professional scouts, on the contrary, the brocade guards of the Ming Dynasty already had a complete military reconnaissance function, so the secret operations of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ming Dynasty did not attract the attention of the Roman authorities.

On the contrary, Jiao Lian's momentum under Milan further attracted the attention of Pope Alexander VII, who did not dare to transfer the Roman army, while the original forces of Florence were constantly transferred to Milan.

By the time the main force of the Ming Army reached the vicinity of Florence, there was hardly any military force that could resist in the entire Florence periphery.

At this time, the gliders and airships of the Ming Air Force had gathered in the skies over Florence.

The Florentine defenders were amazed at how there were so many iron boxes like geese and fish maws in the sky, and in addition to vainly drawing bows and arrows and lighting firearms to attack these monsters, they could only watch as the Ming air force dropped bombs on the city of Florence.

When the first cannonball fell from the sky above Florence and exploded on a church of the Cross, the spire of the church of the Cross burst into countless debris.

It was only then that the officials and citizens of Florence recovered from their astonishment and realized that these wonderful things could bring danger.

The next few explosions exploded in the market, and countless people were directly killed and injured because of this, looking at the people around them who were still intact at first, the flesh and blood of the bomb were blurred in a blink of an eye, and the officials and people of Florence, who were at a loss, instantly panicked and rushed in all directions.

The Italian defenders stationed in Florence were also confused, and they never expected that there would be air raids in a military war.

Therefore, when the Ming Air Force flew over the city of Florence with a large number of bombs, these defenders did not know how to counterattack, and could only watch as these bombs randomly bombed a peaceful Florentine city into chaos.

The entire Florence City's grain depots, barracks and powder depots were taken care of by the Ming Air Force, and within half an hour, many barracks and grain depots were directly on fire.

Countless soldiers ran out of the barracks with roars, and countless explosions rang out in the powder magazines everywhere.

Not only that, but some eye-catching powerful buildings were also bombed directly, and many Western fans were blown out of the house.

By the time the first bombardment had passed, the entire city of Florence had become a sea of flames, and there was not a single street that was not filled with flames and smoke.

The defenders of Florence who survived the bombardment did not have time to take care of the guards outside the city, but had to devote themselves to extinguishing the fires in the city.

However, at this moment, the main artillery of the Ming Army had already moved in place, and thousands of arriving artillery pieces raised their steel barrels with metallic luster from various commanding heights, and shells with tongues of fire erupted out of the barrels, rushing directly into the sky, and falling directly on the walls of Florence in a parabola.

Bang!

The walls of Florence were covered in smoke in an instant, and when the smoke cleared, the entire city of Florence was presented naked in front of the 600,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty, like a woman without clothes.

The 600,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty rushed towards the city of Florence like a tide, and the unobstructed city of Florence only had the meat in the mouths of the 600,000 army at this time, and it was a piece of meat without any bones.

There were very few defenders left in the city of Florence, and the first thing that came to mind after seeing the main force of the Ming army rushing was to immediately drop their weapons and flee.

The inhabitants of Florence, on the other hand, stared blankly at everything in front of them, they had never seen so many yellow people, and all of them seemed to be full of fangs.

At this time, the Ming Army was indeed a wolf full of fangs at this time, before the end of the war was blown, according to the regulations, during this period, anyone in the city was an enemy, so these people would be subjected to the brutal attack of the Ming Army.

Countless Italians were shot to the ground in an instant, and some Italians tried to run but were directly bombarded into powder.

After the inhabitants of the entire Italian city of Florence fell into a pool of blood and abandoned any means of resistance, the call to suspend the killing sounded, and some of the Italians who were lucky enough not to be shot were driven directly together, and at the same time, the Ming army divided into countless small detachments into various churches, villas, manors, and buildings to capture all the upper echelons of the city of Florence and search all documents and paintings.

After all, Florence, the center of the Renaissance, has high achievements in the fields of natural sciences and humanities and even painting, although the Ming Dynasty wants to abolish the writing and culture of these regions, but these human art and technology crystallization still have to be preserved, and to be carried forward in the Ming Dynasty, and the talents related to this aspect will naturally have to be taken back.

After the occupation of Florence, the Italian sub-metropolis with a population of nearly one million, the entire Papal States had lost its last chance to survive, and the cities of Milan and Rome were left alone.

In addition to sending a part of the troops to assist Jiao Lian's troops to capture the city of Milan, the main force of the Ming army rested in Florence for three days and drove directly towards the city of Rome.

At this time, the city of Rome did not know the news of the loss of Florence, and the upper nobility of the entire Papal States was still enjoying the last drunken life. 21022